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Friday, January 10, 2003

Press Action Hero of the Week: GLEN T. MARTIN

Today’s sketch of the views of Glen T. Martin officially launches a new feature known as Press Action Hero of the Week. Press Action each week will recognize a person who has written, edited, compiled or articulated a work that has advanced the cause of peace, freedom, fun and understanding. Watch here every Friday afternoon for the unveiling of the Press Action Hero of the Week.

In an age in which we cringe upon learning about yet another roundup of Muslim residents unlucky enough to have been born in a blacklisted country and in which we grow ever more pessimistic as we read about the enforcement of increasingly restrictive laws, Glen T. Martin, a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Radford University in southwestern Virginia, breaks through the fog of propaganda to become one of the first commentators in the United States to make the dreaded comparison.

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